Global Leaders in Procurement & Negotiations (PSCMInstitute.com)

April 2014

The Purchasing Organization’s Biggest Enemy

We talked earlier about purchasing professional’s biggest enemy being a lack of contract knowledge, thinking a contract approved by the legal department is a good contract, and using contracts as seat belts instead of as anti-lock brakes – resulting in endless time spent putting out fires in your day job. Now let’s take a different

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Purchasing Negotiation Training

How Much Time Are You Spending Preparing for Negotiations? I’m here to break myths and to kill bad practices. We need to start doing business differently as purchasing professionals. Putting out fires all day is not going to cut it. Hey, I’m not an academic, I’ve been there, remember? I was doing public and in-house

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Your Purchasing Contracts are Killing You – Here’s Why

I’m going to keep this one really short. I want you to look in the mirror and ask yourself how much free, productive time you have every day on the job as a purchasing professional. Be honest. The truth is, and I can say this based on my years of global experience, is that you

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